Ari Berenstein
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Chairs and Weapons Shots in All Companies
Bryan writes about the current conflict in professional wrestling very clearly: how can wrestling give the fans the kind of show it expects when there is such a high price to pay for the wrestlers based on the impact of the moves performed? Obviously the ... -
The Purpose and Potential for Porfit
Good column Cory. There is a very real blurring of the barrier between a wrestler’s “character” and “real person”, thanks to the advent of Twitter and Facebook. These websites grant fans limited access and insight into the life and likes / dislikes of the ... -
Using Shoots in the Work
I'm pleasantly surprised to see how closely related my column is to yours Sam. As I discuss tomorrow, the Madison Square Garden incident was an acknowledgment of a real life situation, played out to the public who watched the events unfold onstage, w ... -
Realism in the attack itself
What I found interesting about this moment and the entire NXT attack was that it was WWE's most concerted effort in quite a while to shake up the status quo as far as their storylines. There was a need to elevate the degree of violence In order to di ... -
Conflations of Front and Back in Storylines
I believe that it is these moments that conflate reality and storyline that create these moments of true and deep suspension of disbelief. The old school method of building wrestling programs did sometimes use these sorts of conflations--think of Roddy Pi ... -
Thanks Bryce for the history
Thanks Bryce for the history lesson on ECW--having missed some of the early years I wasn't aware that ECW had done curtain calls. I do recall that there was a huge curtain call for Paul Heyman at the only ECW show I attended, which happened at the Ha ...